INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Their first goal? An at-home, fully automated machine for painting your nails
pretty hush hush about the details, declining to say much about how it actually works
They did tell me that it paints one finger at a time, taking about 10 minutes to go from bare nails to all fingers painted and dried
pop open a bottle of nail polish and pour it in
Under the hood is a camera and some proprietary computer vision algorithms, allowing the machine to paint the nail accurately without
one we saw at CES earlier this year), Coral says its system is the only one that works without requiring the user to first prime their nails
with a base coat or clear coat it after
Both co-founders, meanwhile, have backgrounds in hardware; Venkateswaran previously worked as a product strategy manager at Dolby, where she
helped launch the Dolby Conference Phone
Her co-founder, Bradley Leong, raised around $800,000 on Kickstarter to ship Brydge (one of the earliest takes on a laptop-style iPad
keyboard) back in 2012 before becoming a partner at the seed-stage venture fund Tandem Capital
few months running a small beta program (which you can sign up for here.)
